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The bulletin of the Yamaguchi Medical School Volume 7 Issue 3
published_at 1960-12

A Case of Pulmonary Silicosis Accompanied by Increase of Muscle Fibers in the Lung

A Case of Pulmonary Silicosis Accompanied by Increase of Muscle Fibers in the Lung
Takahashi Manabu
Kirihara Toichi
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An autopsy case of pulmonary silicosis was studied histologically. Besides the ordinary histologic picture of pulmonary silicosis, the following findings were of interest: 1) Hyperplasia and hypertrophy of muscle fibers were frequently encountered in the thickened pleura as well as in the pulmonary parenchyma. 2) The proliferated muscle element could be classified into two types